Adriatic

[ ey-dree-at-ik, ad-ree- ]

adjective

1. of or relating to the Adriatic Sea.

noun

1. Adriatic Sea.

Adriatic

/ ˌeɪdrɪˈætɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the Adriatic Sea, or to the inhabitants of its coast or islands

noun

1. the Adriatic
   short for the Adriatic Sea

Other Words From

• trans-A·dri·atic adjective

Example Sentences

Less than a year after our Adriatic vacation, war broke out in Bosnia, and for the next four years, my whole family lived under siege in Sarajevo.

From Time

Plus, United Airlines launching a direct flight from Newark that whisks you to the jewel of the Adriatic in a cool nine hours, it’s never been easier—and it certainly hasn’t been this safe and peaceful a peak season for years.

From The Daily Beast

They then took the borrowed money and invested it in Greek bonds and in loans to customers around the Mediterranean and Adriatic.

From The Daily Beast

One of these companies is building a luxury complex on the gorgeous Lustica Peninsula, which juts out into the pristine Adriatic.

From The Daily Beast

The next day I went for Trieste in a steamer, down the whole length of the Adriatic.

From Project Gutenberg

I was horribly unwell, for the Adriatic is a bad sea, and very dangerous; the weather was also very rough.

From Project Gutenberg

Among all the cities of the world, incontestably the most beautiful and the most unique is Venice—the « Queen of the Adriatic ».

From Project Gutenberg

Corfu, and the neighboring islands at the mouth of the Adriatic, till then belonging to Venice, were transferred to France.

From Project Gutenberg

In his pictures the whole seductive legend of the fallen Queen of the Adriatic abides.

From Project Gutenberg